The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-06
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
A Lull that Precedes a Busy
Hum.
DICKENS AND OTHER EVENTS.
Pen-The LAbOrs of the Amateurs
in Various Circles.

The Theatre will be temple de
serted now for some time in the future
With the performance of Ben Israe
the local amateurs will retire into tn
background for season, and whatso
ever the public has in the way O
amusements must come from foreigl
companies. Though lost to sight. how
| ever, the amateurs will not by an,
means enter upon a period of biberna
ton. Some of them will go TO worl
with lions Choral, which under Pro
lessor Careless will make winter star
soon, with view to conquering Juda.
or the Messiah. The Careless Opers
| Company, so well remembered from
other seasons, from now Oh
will hold Tuesday night meetings
on the Mascot, which has been
definitely decided upon. The Home
Dramatic Club will also be g
work quietly on the celebrated Di-
plomacy, the Wallack theatre version
of which they have Just secured from
New York. Their present intention is
to put that piece and some other nov
city in rehearsal for the holidays.
Rosina Vokes will be the next attrac-
ton notable at the Theatre.
We Gull the following from Nym
Crinkle's always graceful review of
things theatric in the great metropolis:
l attended the benefit given by Mrs.
Aangtry FOR the Actors Fund. Mrs.
Langtry called me brute for not stay
ing to see her in the last act. 1 wonder
what she would have called me if had,
l must acknowledge that the audience
appeared to like the play, Upon nv
word l cannot for the life of me see
why it should. Mrs. Potter sat in box
and looked critical. Mr.. Harry Miner.
in light gray top coat, came and went
as regularly as a gas collector. Mr..
Kyrle BelleW, who was to have scted as
usher, did not descend. Osmond Tearle
and Mr.. Salvini (nee Signor) ushered for
him. When it was all oyer, verybody
shook hands in coincidence and wished
Langtry had better play.
At night, Mr.. Charles Dickens pre-
sented himself at Chickering Hall as
reader, with Mr.. Chauncey Delew as
orator.
The effect was mismanaged. Mr..
Depew furnished the spontaneity and
Mr.. Dickens the cheStnuts.
Itwas one of those excessively proper
and mildly as reeable occasions that, as
the Herald remarks, leave nothing to be
said. There never is anything left to be
said after Chauncey Depew.
The intrinsic merit of the reading
Those who have heard Vandenhoffr read
Dickens will, feel sure, find Dickens
son just permissible.
l suppose there is no law which in
sists that a son shall read his father
better than anybody else, and am
sure that this son does not read him
better than anybody else. But there is |
in having q son to do it.
MIR. DepeW's eulogism of the elder |
Dickens was glowing, but not accurate. |
Charles Dickens, whom We all allow to |
De a genius. has not influenced the |
thought of the age in any such degree
IS Mr.. Depew insisted that he had. Nor
8 it quite true that he has been more
widely read in this country than any
sther author. Mr.. Depew forgot Mrs.
l don't think Dickens is read so ex-
as he was twenty years ago.
But how about ThackerayH
All this recalls Dickens last visit to
America. How wild we were over him.
20 you remember that farewell dinner
t Delmonico'sS
L saw Dickens late that afternoon.
lie was suffering indescribably with
he neuralgia govt ia his feet, and his
manager had to run all over town, Just
'efore the dinner, 10 End him pair of
stockings.
The dinner was memorable affair,
III the best after-dinuer takers were
here. and Dickens was elevated on a
,latiorm between the big guns. When
be wine began TO dow, the eloquence
ct in. 1t reached it's food tide when
Iowadji Curtis called, with tears
down his face, upon all the
kyiarks of merry England to sing
weeter for Charles Dickens return, and
Il you fragrant hedgerows of the
lotherland blow sweeter for his sakei
And there sat Charles, with his eyes
all Of water and q big dewdrop on
ither cheek.
And when L said to his manager. with
sob. What a sensitive heart he's
otP' he said, Good heavens, me boy.
)nsider his feesl H.
But, all the same, Dickens great
cart oeate on by myriads of fireSides, :
nd some OF its large human pulsations
i'll always be felt along the hedgerows q.
lie wherever the poor and lowly q
udge and tod. '
see Mr.. Daily takes Dandy Dick of
Ext week. 20 the credit that the play
ID not receive must be given to the =
anager. I'm sorry that he ever put it
/. 1t wasn't worthy of his house or
IS company, and 1t leaves an unsayory
ste when it is gone.
In Dandy Dick and the Mousetrap I
anna reached the limit of the allow
de without the impulse OF cleverness.
think good taste can now shut up this
'spangled dungeon of morbid fancy
hsbited only by mocking ghosts. and =
zen shutter to let in the blessed old a
might. After the long winter of crit tt
IL discomfort, one feels at seeing Caste r
vived and Henrietta created and
iitha's Burglar inoarnated, very much
that latest and sweetest of America Il
cts felt when he sang: q